Metro

Bhubaneswar: Producer and entrepreneur Joyeeta Roy and Prateek Kumar Mishra, who had been working on a digital campaign to demand Bharat Ratna award for Dhyan Chand, have been developing the docudrama, which focuses on the early life and struggles of the hockey wizard. The docudrama...

Bhubaneswar: On the occasion of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary, Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paid their tributes to the first Prime Minister Sunday. On its Twitter page, the Odisha Governor’s Office wrote, “Honourable Governor pays his homage to Pandit #JawaharlalNehru...

Bhubaneswar: In the last 24 hours, Odisha has recorded 262 new Covid-19 cases, of which 42 are in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking total tally in the state to 10,45,471. Active caseload in the state now stands at 2,741. Odisha also...

Bhubaneswar: Setting an example for society, a 63-year-old woman in Cuttack city has donated her entire property around Rs 1 crore to a rickshaw puller. Minati Patnaik has donated her three-storey house in Sutahat area of the city, gold ornaments and all other assets to...

Bhubaneswar: Heavy to very heavy rainfall pounded parts of coastal Odisha Saturday under the influence of a low pressure trough that runs from a cyclonic circulation over north Tamil Nadu to Gangetic West Bengal. Puri district was battered by 124 mm rain as six weather...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik strongly condemned the ‘dastardly’ militant attack on Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur Saturday. A commanding officer of the Assam Rifles, his wife and son, besides four personnel of the country's oldest paramilitary force were killed in a welter of...

Bhubaneswar: Maharashtra was crowned the overall champion at the National Yogasana Championship 2021-22 that concluded here Saturday. Tamil Nadu bagged the second position while West Bengal and Goa jointly remained at third position at India's first ever National Yogasana Championships hosted by Odisha. The event...

Bhubaneswar: A fresh low pressure area formed over south Andaman Sea and adjoining Thailand coast Saturday morning, a weather official said. The system is likely to move west-northwestwards and concentrate into a depression over north Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal by November...

Puri: The famed Jagannath temple in Odisha's Puri received a record Rs 28 lakh in cash in the 'Hundi' -- a secret donation chamber in the 12th-century shrine, an official said Saturday. Total Rs 28,10,691 in cash, 550 mg gold and 61.70 g of silver...

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police Saturday took five members of ‘Koi Bhai Nahin’ (KBN) gang on a two-day remand for further interrogation. They were brought from Jharapada Jail in Bhubaneswar amid tight security in the morning. “The SDJM Court here granted police to take the KBN members...